It was rumoured last year that Tom Cruise was in talks with Universal to star in their upcoming reboot of The Mummy, which is set to kick-start their Classic Monsters Shared Universe. Well, now it’s official. Variety are reporting that Cruise has signed on for the picture, but will not serve as a producer as […]
Do we really need a Deadpool movie?
Anghus Houvouras on whether we really need a Deadpool movie… “Ryan Reynolds should play Deadpool.” I’ve been hearing this armchair casting presented online for what seems like a decade. What every comic fan claims to be ‘the perfect casting’. A character that has a huge presence in the comic book community. Certainly not a marquee […]
Tom Cruise in talks to star in The Mummy reboot
It appears as though Universal are not messing about when it comes to casting their upcoming Monsters Universe. Following the news that they’re looking to cast Angelina Jolie (Lara Croft: Tomb Raider) as The Bride of Frankenstein and Scarlett Johansson in Creature From the Black Lagoon, Variety are reporting that they’re in talks with Tom […]
Why 1996 was the Most Important Year in Hollywood
This week, Neil Calloway argues that 1996 was a hugely influential year in cinema… This month sees the release of the long awaited Independence Day sequel. In many ways it seems like a long time since the original came out; the film industry has moved on a lot, and there is no way that a […]
8 killer cues from Cliff Martinez’s The Neon Demon soundtrack
Sean Wilson takes a closer look at the latest captivating collaboration between director Nicolas Winding Refn and composer Cliff Martinez… Filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn doesn’t court controversy and outrage so much as revel in it, and his latest hallucinatory nightmare The Neon Demon is no exception. A surrealistic and increasingly shocking tale of the fashion […]
Movie Review – The Violators (2015)
The Violators, 2015. Directed by Helen Walsh. Starring Lauren McQueen, Brogan Ellis and Stephen Lord. SYNOPSIS: A dysfunctional girl becomes tangled in a series of events after becoming involved with a local womanising hard-man in the poverty-stricken suburbs of Birkenhead. Helen Walsh is no stranger to the urban dystopia in and around the areas of […]
Jon M. Chu may direct Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights
The popularity of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hugely successful Broadway musical Hamilton, a show about the life of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, has renewed interest in a film adaptation of the multi-talented performer’s previous project In the Heights, which may have just found its director. THR reports that Jon M. Chu is currently in talks to helm the […]
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 Review – Finding Dory (2016)
Finding Dory, 2016. Directed by Andrew Stanton and Angus MacLane. Featuring the voice talents of Ellen DeGeneres, Albert Brooks, Ed O’Neill, Eugene Levy, Diane Keaton, Kaitlin Olson, Ty Burrell, Bill Hader, Kate McKinnon, Dominic West and Idris Elba. SYNOPSIS: The friendly-but-forgetful blue tang fish reunites with her loved ones, and everyone learns a few things about […]
Bill Murray talks Ghostbusters cameo and praises the reboot
It was certainly a bit of a surprise when Bill Murray signed on for a cameo in Paul Feig’s female-led reboot of Ghostbusters, given that he’d been against the idea of reuniting with his original co-stars for a movie for 25 years. Nevertheless, Murray will be returning to the franchise next month, and he’s been speaking on Jimmy […]
Domhnall Gleeson to play Mr. McGregor in Peter Rabbit movie
Deadline is reporting that Domhnall Gleeson (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) has signed on to Sony’s live-action/CG hybrid Peter Rabbit movie, where he is set to play the menacing farmer Mr. McGregor. Will Gluck (Easy A) is directing the film, which will see James Corden (Into the Woods) as the voice of Peter alongside Rose Byrne (X-Men: […]
